evacuationn.

/ɪˌvakjuːˈeɪʃən/

Etymology: < late Latin ēvacuātiōn-em, noun of action < ēvacuāre : see evacuate v.

The action of evacuating; the condition of being evacuated.

1. spec.

a. Medicine. The action or process of depleting (the body or any organ), or of clearing out (morbid matter, ‘humours’, etc.), by medicine or other artificial means. rare in recent use.Before the 19th century the word was most frequently used with reference to bleeding; for this we have a large number of quotations.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatments removing or dispersing matter > [noun]

evacuationc1400

depletion1731

abevacuation1754

c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. (MS. A.) 100 Ofte tymes he haþ..to myche evacuacioun of blood.

1541 T. Elyot Castel of Helthe (new ed.) 53 a To expell the sayd excrementes are ix sundry kyndes of evacuation..abstinence, vomyte, purgation by siege, letting of bloude, etc.

1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1317 Evacuation, or clensing the body by clistre.

1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy ii. v. ii. 481 Bleed on... If the parties strength will not admitt much euacuation in this kind at once, it [sc. bleeding] must be assayed againe and againe.

1651 N. Biggs Matæotechnia Medicinæ Praxeωs 136 One manner of evacuation of evil humours, purgation.

1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random I. xxxv. 311 I prepared for this important evacuation [of blood].

1769 W. Buchan Domest. Med. ii. 255 The patient, exhausted by mere evacuations, sunk under the disease.

1805 W. Saunders Treat. Mineral Waters (ed. 2) 467 This method..seems to have a preference over actual evacuation by the lancet.

1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 179/1 The evacuation of the contents of the rectum and bladder.

b. Physiology. The process of discharging (waste matter, etc.) through the excretory organs (now esp. from the bowels); an instance of this process; a manner in which it takes place.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > [noun] > action of excreting

sheddingc1200

flux1377

outputtinga1387

purgationa1387

avoidancea1398

voidance1398

evacuation?1533

spurging1548

emptying1552

vacuation1583

emunction1601

regurgitation1601

vacation1617

excretion1640

egestion1644

weeping1655

elimination1665

despumation1684

excreting1849

the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > defecation or urination > defecation > [noun]

purgationa1387

shitting1386

officec1395

outpassinga1398

subduction?a1425

easementa1438

cuckingc1440

siegea1475

evacuation?1533

stool1541

egestion1547

dunging1558

purging1579

stooling1599

cackc1600

motion1602

dejection1605

excretion1640

exclusion1646

purgament1650

exoneration1651

disenteration1654

orduring1654

crapping1673

passage1681

seat1697

opening1797

defecation1825

excreting1849

poopc1890

movement1891

job1899

shit?1927

crap1937

dump1942

soiling1943

gick1959

jobbie1981

pooh1981

?1533 G. Du Wes Introductorie for to lerne Frenche sig. Cci A body..may nat grow by the vertue of such degestion without expulsion or euacuation.

1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 176 After many euacuations, sitting downe vpon an homely bed..[he] died.

1643 R. Overton Mans Mortallitie vii. 54 The evacuation of seed in carnall copulation.

1659 H. Hammond Paraphr. & Annot. Psalms (cvi. 15 Annot.) 537/2 Nature..seeks to discharge it selfe by the several evacuations.

1725 N. Robinson New Theory of Physick 73 This Evacuation [perspiration] is by far the greatest of any in the Body.

1727 A. Pope et al. Περι Βαθους: Art of Sinking 13 in J. Swift et al. Misc.: Last Vol. Has had some Poetical Evacuation, and no question was much the better for it in his Health.

1749 D. Hartley Observ. Man i. iii. 399 The causes of it are..violent and long-continued Passions, profuse Evacuations.

1784 S. Johnson Let. 18 Mar. (1994) IV. 298 The dropsy..has now run almost totally away by natural evacuation.

1829 J. Togno & E. Durand tr. H. Milne-Edwards & P. Vavasseur Man. Materia Medica xi. 408 Their employment is preferable to that of purgatives, whenever it is requisite to promote alvine evacuations.

1832 W. Hamilton in Edinb. Rev. July 469 Under the terms crudity, coction and evacuation, were designated [according to the Humoral Pathology] the three principal periods of diseases.

c. concrete. Evacuated or excreted matter.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretions > [noun]

flux1382

superfluitya1398

outwaxing?1541

excrement1565

recrement1578

profluvium1603

redeliverage1612

evacuation1625

excretion1630

staxis1745

egesta1787

rejectments1818

rejectamenta1834

rejection1838

excreta1857

excretes1883

output1883

ejecta1890

1625 J. Hart Anat. Urines ii. viii. 100 Other euacuations, both vpwards and downwards, came.

1760 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy I. xxiii. 169 Others..will draw a man's character..merely from his evacuations.

1846 G. E. Day tr. J. F. Simon Animal Chem. II. 384 Sometimes we find, in the deposit from these evacuations, small white or yellow masses.

a. gen. The action of emptying (a receptacle), or of removing (the contents of anything) so as to produce a vacancy; the depletion (of a treasury, one's resources, etc.). Sometimes with transferred notion of 1a. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > place > absence > fact of being unoccupied > [noun] > emptiness > emptying

avoidancea1398

voidance1398

voidingc1435

empting1440

teeming?1468

emptying1552

emptening1561

evacuation1593

evacuating1594

exinanition1603

depletion1656

exhaustion1796

1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie iv. ix. 186 Popery..hath not beene able to reestablish it selfe in any place, after prouision made against it by vtter euacuation of all Romish ceremonies.

1598 R. Barckley Disc. Felicitie of Man v. 388 They [sc. Lawyers & Physicions] haue one common end, that is gaine; and the maner of both their proceedings..is by euacuation.

1640 J. Dyke in J. Dyke Right Receiving of Christ Ep. to Rdr. sig. A8 The continuall effluences of vertue out of him..is not the least evacuation at all unto him.

1697 J. Potter Archæologiæ Græcæ I. ii. xix. 326 Their treasury..exhausted by so frequent Evacuations.

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth I. 72 It is pretty evident, that their [sc. grottoes'] excavation has been owing to waters.

1796 S. Vince Princ. Hydrostat. vii. 95 The evacuation made by so swift a current.

1840 T. B. Macaulay Ld. Clive 30 Not content with these ways of getting rid of his money, [he] resorted to the most speedy and effectual of all modes of evacuation, a contested election.

1869 J. Phillips Vesuvius iii. 48 After the extraordinary evacuation of the large crateral space.

1877 tr. H. W. von Ziemssen et al. Cycl. Pract. Med. XII. Index.

†b. The quantity removed by ‘evacuation’. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > place > absence > fact of being unoccupied > [noun] > emptiness > emptying > quantity removed by

evacuation1799

1799 W. Jones Adams's Lect. Nat. & Exper. Philos. (ed. 2) I. iv. App. 158 The evacuations [sc. of air] and the remainders do both of them decrease in the same geometrical progression.

†c. A clearing out, depleting (of population, etc.). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > causing to go away > [noun] > removal

evacuationa1676

a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) ii. x. 238 Let us also consider the vast Evacuations of Men that England hath had by Forein Assistances lent to Forein Kingdoms.

1690 J. Child Disc. Trade x. 174 And if that Evacuation [of population] be grown to an excess.

1755 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) III. 362 There will be a great evacuation at Bath of fine folks.

3. Military. †(a) The clearing (a place) of troops (obsolete). (b) The withdrawal (by an army or commander) from occupation of a country, fortress, town, etc. (c) The removal (of a garrison, the population of a place, etc.).

ΚΠ

1710 London Gaz. No. 4666/1 The Deputies..have insisted..on the Evacuation of the Kingdom of all Foreign Troops.

1785 Ann. Reg. 1783 Chron. 221/2 The final evacuation of that city [sc. New York] took place on the 26th of this month.

1796 E. Burke Corr. IV. 354 An evacuation of the Mediterranean, as a preliminary to a war with Spain.

1839 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece (new ed.) IV. 125 They offered no concession beyond the evacuation of Decelea and the Attic territory.

1863 A. W. Kinglake Invasion of Crimea I. xvii. 354 A declaration..which made the further continuance of peace dependent upon the evacuation of the Principalities.

1880 J. McCarthy Hist. our Own Times III. xxxiv. 92 The time for the evacuation of the garrison came.

attributive.1845 Knickerbocker Mag. 25 127 Evacuation day has a cathartic sound about it, and is only attractive to the great boys who play at soldiering.a1854 G. Furman Antiq. Long Island (1875) 269 The Evacuation day..has been observed as a species of holiday on the west end of Long Island.1856 F. S. Cozzens Sparrowgrass Papers vi. 68 One is that of the horse-ghost, who may be seen every Evacuation night.1880 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Suppl. Evacuation day, the anniversary of the day on which the British army evacuated the city of New York, November 25, 1783.1903 N.Y. Sun 26 Nov. 9 Evacuation Day Kept. Flag Raised at the Battery and in the Park as When the British Left.1939 Times 2 Nov. 8/7 Parents should remember that such educational facilities as can be provided in the evacuation areas are not likely to be nearly so good as those available in the reception areas.1940 Archit. Rev. 87 101 (title) Evacuation camp.1940 E. T. Seton Trail of Artist-naturalist 241 Monday, which, being Evacuation Day, was a public holiday.

4. The action of making void and of no effect; cancelling, nullification. Cf. evacuate v. 4.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > cancellation, revocation > [noun] > rendering void or invalid

non-certificate1455

non-certifying1474

evacuating1594

infirming1612

evacuation1649

avoidinga1716

nullification1808

1649 H. Hammond Vindic. Addresse 30 The suspension of the latter, farre from including the evacuation, or cancelling of the former.

1691 T. Beverley Thousand Years' Kingdom 21 Putting Them quite under his Feet, by that perfect distinguishing Catargesis, or Evacuation of All Power, Motion, or Action.

1750 S. Johnson Rambler No. 31. ⁋10 Sophisms tending to the confusion of all principles, and the evacuation of all duties.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	evacuation
释义	evacuationn. /ɪˌvakjuːˈeɪʃən/ Etymology: < late Latin ēvacuātiōn-em, noun of action < ēvacuāre : see evacuate v. The action of evacuating; the condition of being evacuated. 1. spec. a. Medicine. The action or process of depleting (the body or any organ), or of clearing out (morbid matter, ‘humours’, etc.), by medicine or other artificial means. rare in recent use.Before the 19th century the word was most frequently used with reference to bleeding; for this we have a large number of quotations. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatments removing or dispersing matter > [noun] evacuationc1400 depletion1731 abevacuation1754 c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. (MS. A.) 100 Ofte tymes he haþ..to myche evacuacioun of blood. 1541 T. Elyot Castel of Helthe (new ed.) 53 a To expell the sayd excrementes are ix sundry kyndes of evacuation..abstinence, vomyte, purgation by siege, letting of bloude, etc. 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1317 Evacuation, or clensing the body by clistre. 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy ii. v. ii. 481 Bleed on... If the parties strength will not admitt much euacuation in this kind at once, it [sc. bleeding] must be assayed againe and againe. 1651 N. Biggs Matæotechnia Medicinæ Praxeωs 136 One manner of evacuation of evil humours, purgation. 1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random I. xxxv. 311 I prepared for this important evacuation [of blood]. 1769 W. Buchan Domest. Med. ii. 255 The patient, exhausted by mere evacuations, sunk under the disease. 1805 W. Saunders Treat. Mineral Waters (ed. 2) 467 This method..seems to have a preference over actual evacuation by the lancet. 1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 179/1 The evacuation of the contents of the rectum and bladder. b. Physiology. The process of discharging (waste matter, etc.) through the excretory organs (now esp. from the bowels); an instance of this process; a manner in which it takes place. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > [noun] > action of excreting sheddingc1200 flux1377 outputtinga1387 purgationa1387 avoidancea1398 voidance1398 evacuation?1533 spurging1548 emptying1552 vacuation1583 emunction1601 regurgitation1601 vacation1617 excretion1640 egestion1644 weeping1655 elimination1665 despumation1684 excreting1849 the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > defecation or urination > defecation > [noun] purgationa1387 shitting1386 officec1395 outpassinga1398 subduction?a1425 easementa1438 cuckingc1440 siegea1475 evacuation?1533 stool1541 egestion1547 dunging1558 purging1579 stooling1599 cackc1600 motion1602 dejection1605 excretion1640 exclusion1646 purgament1650 exoneration1651 disenteration1654 orduring1654 crapping1673 passage1681 seat1697 opening1797 defecation1825 excreting1849 poopc1890 movement1891 job1899 shit?1927 crap1937 dump1942 soiling1943 gick1959 jobbie1981 pooh1981 ?1533 G. Du Wes Introductorie for to lerne Frenche sig. Cci A body..may nat grow by the vertue of such degestion without expulsion or euacuation. 1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 176 After many euacuations, sitting downe vpon an homely bed..[he] died. 1643 R. Overton Mans Mortallitie vii. 54 The evacuation of seed in carnall copulation. 1659 H. Hammond Paraphr. & Annot. Psalms (cvi. 15 Annot.) 537/2 Nature..seeks to discharge it selfe by the several evacuations. 1725 N. Robinson New Theory of Physick 73 This Evacuation [perspiration] is by far the greatest of any in the Body. 1727 A. Pope et al. Περι Βαθους: Art of Sinking 13 in J. Swift et al. Misc.: Last Vol. Has had some Poetical Evacuation, and no question was much the better for it in his Health. 1749 D. Hartley Observ. Man i. iii. 399 The causes of it are..violent and long-continued Passions, profuse Evacuations. 1784 S. Johnson Let. 18 Mar. (1994) IV. 298 The dropsy..has now run almost totally away by natural evacuation. 1829 J. Togno & E. Durand tr. H. Milne-Edwards & P. Vavasseur Man. Materia Medica xi. 408 Their employment is preferable to that of purgatives, whenever it is requisite to promote alvine evacuations. 1832 W. Hamilton in Edinb. Rev. July 469 Under the terms crudity, coction and evacuation, were designated [according to the Humoral Pathology] the three principal periods of diseases. c. concrete. Evacuated or excreted matter. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretions > [noun] flux1382 superfluitya1398 outwaxing?1541 excrement1565 recrement1578 profluvium1603 redeliverage1612 evacuation1625 excretion1630 staxis1745 egesta1787 rejectments1818 rejectamenta1834 rejection1838 excreta1857 excretes1883 output1883 ejecta1890 1625 J. Hart Anat. Urines ii. viii. 100 Other euacuations, both vpwards and downwards, came. 1760 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy I. xxiii. 169 Others..will draw a man's character..merely from his evacuations. 1846 G. E. Day tr. J. F. Simon Animal Chem. II. 384 Sometimes we find, in the deposit from these evacuations, small white or yellow masses. 2. a. gen. The action of emptying (a receptacle), or of removing (the contents of anything) so as to produce a vacancy; the depletion (of a treasury, one's resources, etc.). Sometimes with transferred notion of 1a. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > absence > fact of being unoccupied > [noun] > emptiness > emptying avoidancea1398 voidance1398 voidingc1435 empting1440 teeming?1468 emptying1552 emptening1561 evacuation1593 evacuating1594 exinanition1603 depletion1656 exhaustion1796 1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie iv. ix. 186 Popery..hath not beene able to reestablish it selfe in any place, after prouision made against it by vtter euacuation of all Romish ceremonies. 1598 R. Barckley Disc. Felicitie of Man v. 388 They [sc. Lawyers & Physicions] haue one common end, that is gaine; and the maner of both their proceedings..is by euacuation. 1640 J. Dyke in J. Dyke Right Receiving of Christ Ep. to Rdr. sig. A8 The continuall effluences of vertue out of him..is not the least evacuation at all unto him. 1697 J. Potter Archæologiæ Græcæ I. ii. xix. 326 Their treasury..exhausted by so frequent Evacuations. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth I. 72 It is pretty evident, that their [sc. grottoes'] excavation has been owing to waters. 1796 S. Vince Princ. Hydrostat. vii. 95 The evacuation made by so swift a current. 1840 T. B. Macaulay Ld. Clive 30 Not content with these ways of getting rid of his money, [he] resorted to the most speedy and effectual of all modes of evacuation, a contested election. 1869 J. Phillips Vesuvius iii. 48 After the extraordinary evacuation of the large crateral space. 1877 tr. H. W. von Ziemssen et al. Cycl. Pract. Med. XII. Index. †b. The quantity removed by ‘evacuation’. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > absence > fact of being unoccupied > [noun] > emptiness > emptying > quantity removed by evacuation1799 1799 W. Jones Adams's Lect. Nat. & Exper. Philos. (ed. 2) I. iv. App. 158 The evacuations [sc. of air] and the remainders do both of them decrease in the same geometrical progression. †c. A clearing out, depleting (of population, etc.). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > causing to go away > [noun] > removal evacuationa1676 a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) ii. x. 238 Let us also consider the vast Evacuations of Men that England hath had by Forein Assistances lent to Forein Kingdoms. 1690 J. Child Disc. Trade x. 174 And if that Evacuation [of population] be grown to an excess. 1755 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) III. 362 There will be a great evacuation at Bath of fine folks. 3. Military. †(a) The clearing (a place) of troops (obsolete). (b) The withdrawal (by an army or commander) from occupation of a country, fortress, town, etc. (c) The removal (of a garrison, the population of a place, etc.). ΚΠ 1710 London Gaz. No. 4666/1 The Deputies..have insisted..on the Evacuation of the Kingdom of all Foreign Troops. 1785 Ann. Reg. 1783 Chron. 221/2 The final evacuation of that city [sc. New York] took place on the 26th of this month. 1796 E. Burke Corr. IV. 354 An evacuation of the Mediterranean, as a preliminary to a war with Spain. 1839 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece (new ed.) IV. 125 They offered no concession beyond the evacuation of Decelea and the Attic territory. 1863 A. W. Kinglake Invasion of Crimea I. xvii. 354 A declaration..which made the further continuance of peace dependent upon the evacuation of the Principalities. 1880 J. McCarthy Hist. our Own Times III. xxxiv. 92 The time for the evacuation of the garrison came. attributive.1845 Knickerbocker Mag. 25 127 Evacuation day has a cathartic sound about it, and is only attractive to the great boys who play at soldiering.a1854 G. Furman Antiq. Long Island (1875) 269 The Evacuation day..has been observed as a species of holiday on the west end of Long Island.1856 F. S. Cozzens Sparrowgrass Papers vi. 68 One is that of the horse-ghost, who may be seen every Evacuation night.1880 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Suppl. Evacuation day, the anniversary of the day on which the British army evacuated the city of New York, November 25, 1783.1903 N.Y. Sun 26 Nov. 9 Evacuation Day Kept. Flag Raised at the Battery and in the Park as When the British Left.1939 Times 2 Nov. 8/7 Parents should remember that such educational facilities as can be provided in the evacuation areas are not likely to be nearly so good as those available in the reception areas.1940 Archit. Rev. 87 101 (title) Evacuation camp.1940 E. T. Seton Trail of Artist-naturalist 241 Monday, which, being Evacuation Day, was a public holiday. 4. The action of making void and of no effect; cancelling, nullification. Cf. evacuate v. 4. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > cancellation, revocation > [noun] > rendering void or invalid non-certificate1455 non-certifying1474 evacuating1594 infirming1612 evacuation1649 avoidinga1716 nullification1808 1649 H. Hammond Vindic. Addresse 30 The suspension of the latter, farre from including the evacuation, or cancelling of the former. 1691 T. Beverley Thousand Years' Kingdom 21 Putting Them quite under his Feet, by that perfect distinguishing Catargesis, or Evacuation of All Power, Motion, or Action. 1750 S. Johnson Rambler No. 31. ⁋10 Sophisms tending to the confusion of all principles, and the evacuation of all duties. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.c1400
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